Maximum Ride: The New Breed

Reed-

Why was she asking sombody to kill her? Wouldn't it be hard to kill anyone, let alone a friend? I saw ZT pick up the gun, his eyes were expressionless but I knew there was great termiol under them. But he didn't let himself think about it. He turned around, quikly aimed, and pulled the trigger. I closed my eyes, waiting for the loud gunshot that would snuff out Lexy's life. But it didn't come. Instead there was the few soft clicks of a trigger being pulled, and then ZT exlaimed "Crap! The gun's out of bullets."

(Lexy)

I looked down, well the easy was wasn't the way out, without looking at anyone I asked as blood trickled down my side,

"Who's the strongest... physically?"

Rose asked, "Why? What does it matter?" She screamed.

"'cause their gonna have to brake my neck." I said dreading the thought but someone had to do it, I couldn't hold on much longer.

(ZT)

I gagged. I couldn't help it. Somehow I had tried. Tears fell to the ground. How could I have done that? It had almost felt like I had no control over my body.

Immediately after, I threw the gun into the stream and turned and started to run--or limp slowly--away. There was no way they were going to get me to break her neck.

I didn't want anyone to see me--I don't know how I could have tried to shoot someone... whether they wanted me to or not.

I might get hated for it... but I was still confused. It had felt like I'd been drugged when I picked up the gun. I couldn't stop myself, even if I wanted to. But would anyone believe me?

I heard Mayze calling me, and even though I wasn't sure if it would help to talk--it might make things worse if she didn't understand--but I had to stop. There was no way I would risk losing a friend by running away. She had been nice enough to follow me here, so there was hopefully a chance that she would believe me.

And maybe, since it was all for good, it wouldn't be as bad as I thought.

Yeah right. I had still tried to do it unconsciously.

I turned around, preparing to tell what had happened.

(Lexy)

I honestly didn't want to die, but I couldn't handle this pain anymore. I didn't want to bleed to death, I didn't want to have to tortue my flock this way. I followed ZT I stopped once I found him and made him look me in the eyes.

"You don't... know me... and I don't mean a thing to you. You can do it, just think of me as a white coat. Do it, Z. I know you can." I said.

"What if I don't want to? What if I'm affraid? What if you don't deserve to die? Then what Lex?" He almost yelled at me... almost.

"I don't want to. and I know killing me and it's a big thing I'm asking of you. I'm affriad too. I don't deserve to die, but I'm slowing you guys down. Your not a murderer if I ask you to do this for me." I coughed.

"I don't wanna do this." He said altogether.

"You don't or you won't? Please. I can't... I don't... I won't make it and you know it." I said to him. I needed him to do this one thing for me.

"It's too late for me. One snap, one. Do it, please?"

Reed-

"You don't need to do it."

Lexy and ZT spun around. "What did you say!" they both said simultaneously.

I held up a small tube. I had almost forgotten that I had it; it was my most prized possession though. I didn't know exactly what it contained, but I'd seen the whitecoats use it on mutants that were hopeless. They were surprised when they lost it, but they never suspected me.

"I said you don't need to kill her!" I exclaimed. "If you're so determined to die one drop of this should do the trick."

I gave Lexy the bottle, turned away from them and went. I didn't want to see what her decision was, and anyway I'll hear about it soon enough anyway.

(im baack!!! phew i missed a lot but i read it all so im jumpin back in ok? lets just say Blade was with everyone, flying and fighting but just quietly? ok here i go)

[Blade]

Blade was sitting in a tree with her arms propped up against her knees, her wings slightly unfurled, and her head down. She couldn't believe what was happening. If the others were anything like her, they fought like heck to make it out of the School. Which would make them fighters. Hence the fighting. But if they were fighters, why was Lexy giving up so easily?

She chanced a look towards the crowd gathered next to her, Reed had handed her a bottle. Would she take it?

Blade hoped not. This was her flock, and even if she hadn't spoken to any of them, she had a feeling they belonged together. Slowly, she rose from her position on the tree and then strode purposefully over to the gathering.

"You don't have to do this," Blade offered quietly, speaking for the first time. Something inside her squirmed, desperately wanting to keep the flock that she didn't even know together.

(Rose)

Rose couldn't help it. A stream of tears cascaded down her blood sodden clothes. She let go of Lexy completely and buried her face in her hands. Lexy was taking, cut off, shallow breaths and holding the bottle in her palm.
"No, you can't do this Lexy, you'll be ok." Rose begged.
She looked round desperately to the flock. They couldn't let people just die. Rose's eyes were red and she was shaking. Colt bent down. He was like an older brother to Rose. He would make everything better or Nate or ZT or anyone.

"Well..." Lexy whispered weakly.
Everybody turned to her, trying to keep back the upset looks on their faces and failing. Lexy tightened her hold on the bottle and held it up. Rose dropped her shoulders and shuffled fowards carefully.

How could Reed gave her that, Rose thought angrily. She shot him an evil stare then looked back at Lexy. She was unscrewing the bottle top. Everyone held their breath until the silence was almost unbearable. Would she do it?

[Stella]

The night air was cool, refreshing.


I felt like I’d held my breath and had just now let it go. Despite my worry of the flock, I giggled in pure joy and barrel rolled.

When I righted myself, I peered into the darkness and saw dim lights among the stars. I looked closer and saw a circle of light on the trees. I gasped and whipped around, diving into the forest, yelling, “Helicopter!”

**Sorry Reed.**

Reed-

As I walked away I saw some people giving me evil stares. I wanted to shout at them, what! She wanted a way out, now she's got one that doesn’t involve someone killing her. Lexy had me real mad at her for a second there. Going around saying, I need someone to kill me, will you kill me. I was planning on saving that bottle for something really important but since no one could think of a better idea, like her flying up to a good height and letting herself fall, or having her eat a natural poison. Sometimes I thought these mutants were really smart, and at other times they acted like they had no brains at all.

I was so deep in thought that I almost missed the sound of a helicopter flying nearby.

[Stella]

I landed and ran, almost right into Reed.

“Sorry.” I said, panic was written all over my face. “A helicopter…” I felt stupid as I heard the blades of the helicopter coming nearer. “Where are the others?”


**sorry this is so short**

(ZT)

I heard it before I heard the call, but I had no clue what it was, so I couldn't tell anyone about it. Someone yelled "helicopter!", so apparently that's what it was. Thanks to Mayze and Colt, I was ready to go. But Lexy wasn't. Would she take whatever was in the bottle? If she did, I hoped that it would be quick, because the helicopter was getting closer, and I didn't want to get caught again.

But I wouldn't leave anyone behind, because they hadn't left me behind... well, a few of them hadn't, anyways.

It was getting closer... we needed to get out... we needed to hurry.

*Okay, can whatever happens happen pretty soon??? XD Everyone's missing now... it's just Lexy, Reed, Rose, me, a couple from Stella and one from Blade... Where's Colt, Mayze, Nate, Sam, and anyone else I'm forgetting???*

(Rose)

Rose leapt to her feet in shock as she heard the helicopter blades chop through the air. She glanced down at Lexy who was still withering in pain and holding the bottle up.
"Lexy you're going to have to make a decision soon." Rose choked.
She wanted to comfort Lexy but she also feared for the safety of the rest of the flock. Reed, Kei and Mayze were standing at the edge of the clearing ready to run. Rose had a strained look on her face as she watched Colt and Nate put out the fire.

"What are we going to do?" Rose shouted over the noise of the helicopter.
It was very close now, practically hovering over them. The flock was in alot of danger.
"Colt, ZT, take everyone and run as fast as you can through the woods. When you are a good distance away start flying. I will stay with Lexy." Nate commanded everyone.

The flock stood staring at Nate. They knew the helicopter was only meters away. To Rose it felt like things were going in slow motion.
"What about after. Where will you meet us?" Kei asked.
"I'll catch up now run!" Nate bellowed.
Rose shot Lexy a fleeting glance before swivelling on her heel and sprinting away.

Everyone ran until their bodies felt ready to explode. Rose could feel her head beating, drowning out any other noises. She could feel the twigs snapping under her feet and her arms snagging on the branches. It felt like they were trying to catch her too.Stella pointed to the left and darted sideways. She had found an exit.

The flock broke out of the woods and into a field of wheat.
"We lost them, I think we've....," Rose began.
Reed pointed over the treetops silently. Rose turned and ducked instinctively. The helicopter had pursued them and was whirring down towards them. ZT spread his large wings and flapped them a few times
"Fly!" he shouted.
Everyone acted without a second thought. Rose flung herself up and snapped open her wings to catch the wind. She swooped over to Kei and waved. All the sadness about Lexy had been washed out of her by the wind stroking her smooth wings.

For now the flock was faster then the helicopter and they were making the gap bigger while they could.

(ZT)

Up, down, up, down, up, down, I told myself. Before I had said that I was ready to go, but now that I got up in the air, it was becoming harder to concentrate. Maybe I had lost too much blood. The rest of the new flock got farther away from the helicopter, but I kept dropping back. It was hopeless. They were going to catch me. None of the new flock had noticed me fall back yet, which I thought was good. I didn't want any of them to slow down and get caught too. But sometime they would notice that they were one short.

I realized that the helicopter was going to hit me if I kept on going like this, so I folded my wings and dropped down so that I was under it. I tried to open them again so that I could keep flying, but it didn't work. The eraser had probably killed me after all... he just had to wait 'til now. I rocketed towards the ground.

At that point, I couldn't stop myself from yelling for help. If the whitecoats caught me, I might be okay. But I didn't want to die.

Would they hear me?

(Lexy)

Ah hell, I looked up at the helicopter, the idiot white coats were in there with the door wide open. I smiled, I wasn't going to die, I was going to do something with this bottle but it wasn't for me. I unscrewed the bottle top and broke out my wings and flew, I threw the liquid in three of the white coats eyes. I broke the bottle over one of the white coat's heads. They shot at me once again, one of the shots was so close I ended up falling, hitting my face on the fall. I jumped up and, I ran toward Rose. Blood still running over my rib cage and down to my hip.

"Rose, run!" I yelled grabbing my side. I decided when Reed gave me the bottle they didn't want me to die and it was a hint that I needed to fight this.

*I know it's pretty short... sorry *

Reed-

As we were flying away, I looked back at the helicopter to see if it was following us. It wasn't, but it had its light on someone else. ZT was dropping back, and for a second I was grateful, finally, one of the mutants that will get back to safety, I thought. But then I got a shock, the people in the helicopter weren’t whitecoats. All the whitecoats vehicles had a symbol on them, a white coat with a long strand of DNA going down the middle. The helicopter didn't have the symbol!

I looked for the closest mutant to me, and rushed up to her. In my haste I didn't recognize her, but it didn't matter. I yelled, "ZT, in trouble!" That was all it took to get her attention. She looked at me and nodded. I quickly wheeled around not looking to see if she followed, and broke a branch off a tree I was flying over. All I needed to do was disrupt its flight pattern and the helicopter would crash, and suddenly it came to me, the tail rotor that's where I could bring them to the ground.